Sentences with phrase «own cognitive capacities»

Memory is a key component of cognitive capacity, required for comparing options (alternatives need to be kept in mind simultaneously), making judgments (you have to remember pros and cons in order to weigh them), and plotting and executing strategy (you have to remember the steps to form them into an overall plan).

While the numbers may vary a bit, research from University College, London tells us that our cognitive capacity is limited to handle no more than 150 to 250 relationships.

So the next time you're writing your boss an email during a meeting, remember that your cognitive capacity is being diminished to the point that you might as well let an 8 - year - old write it for you.

In short, it is the prescription for medical oppression in which people deemed to be without sufficient cognitive capacities become almost the equivalent of the dead and the value of their lives is stripped from them like the medals from a Foreign Legion soldier being kicked out of the corps.

Indeed, they advocate treating people as no more than the sum of their carbon molecules, of no inherent value beyond cognitive capacity (bioethics) or ability to suffer (animal rights) at the moment of measurement.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

Additionally, there's no way that individuals who don't possess the cognitive capacity to conceive of God just get ignored by Him.

I recognize that the unconscious which is the abysmal source of our earthly demons is also the dynamic ground of love and creativity which, together with our cognitive capacities, produces the truths and beauties and goodnesses of human life.

Animal brains don't have the cognitive capacity for «imagination» and abstract thinking like a human being.

Evolution doesn't predict that anatomies or behaviors or cognitive capacities will keep changing at a constant rate for all species.

At age 6, babies who bedshared had increased cognitive capacities.

When deciding when and what to tell a child, parents consider the age of the child, his or her cognitive capacity to understand, and his or her emotional development or maturity.

«We have huge cognitive capacity to invest, and the desire to recover is stronger than a rat, so the recovery may be more extensive.

Still, while he thinks we have the «sequencing capacity» to deal with the demands,» [I'm] not sure we have the cognitive capacity.»

«This new evidence illuminates the central role of early experience as infants specify which signals, from an initially broad set, they will continue to link to core cognitive capacities,» said Danielle R. Perszyk, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in cognitive psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

Thus, increasing neurogenesis is a potential treatment for a variety of disorders that would benefit from improving cognitive capacity.

If you're a nativist about basic core cognitive capacities, as I am, does that also lead you to be a nativist about, say, differences among the sexes?

He now plans to investigate how declining TIMP2 affects cognitive capacity and Alzheimer's disease.

I lay out what science tells us: rattlesnakes have what we have in terms of emotional and cognitive capacities, and then look at rattlesnake natural history through that lens.

Some expectant parents play classical music for their unborn babies, hoping to boost their children's cognitive capacity later in life.

It's also possible that it's beyond their cognitive capacity — although anyone who has tried to squirrel - proof a bird feeder knows that squirrels have a lot of cognitive capacity.

The right hemisphere does not speak, as a rule, and has very limited cognitive capacities.

The emphasis with robots is on their autonomy, cognitive capacities, strategy for cooperation and in the interaction with their human colleagues».

On page 976 of this issue, Mani et al. (1) provide a possible reason: Poverty - related concerns impair cognitive capacity.

I work faster, am more efficient and — perhaps the greatest single test of cognitive capacity — I forget where I left my keys less often.

«The question becomes how do they maintain these relationships,» because what the elephants are doing «requires a high level of cognitive capacity,» as any social networking maven well knows.

Goffin cockatoos are a highly curious Indonesian parrot species that have already proven to possess remarkable cognitive capacities.

The use of the touchscreen presents a controlled setting to test cognitive capacities in animals and has already successfully been used in a number of species.

By that logic, humans lacked the cognitive capacities necessary to invent the atomic bomb until World War II.

Researchers have long suspected that some people may be protected from the disease because of their greater cognitive capacity, or reserve.

Among other things he seeks to understand their social interactions, cognitive capacities, tool - use and hunting behavior.

This offers an unprecedented opportunity for research concerning individual variation and relationships between brain structure and function relative to development and cognitive capacity in a nonhuman primate.

The former strongly suggests that those same genes are tied to intelligence, and «could be involved in the amazing cognitive capacity of dolphins,» McGowen said.

Another studying appearing in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research found that cognitive capacity was significantly reduced whenever a smartphone is within reach, even when the phone is off.

The brain can relax and enter a contemplative state in nature settings which helps to refresh or restore cognitive capacities.

And if you take a closer look at the two conditions, you can see how they could be related — mostly because of the effect ADD has on central cognitive capacity.

«The present study demonstrated that regular resistance exercises could provide significant gains on the upper and lower body strength concomitant to positive improvements on cognitive capacities of elderly women, bringing enhanced life quality.»

The Internet can also be beneficial, Storm points out, for older adults whose own cognitive capacities have begun to decline.

Thus, audiences confront the mystery of consciousness, and are reminded of the answers we still seek, the questions we haven't posed yet, and the phenomenas for which we may never have the cognitive capacity to understand.

The driver of the camper turns out to be a young man (Paul Dano) with the cognitive capacity of a 10 - year - old, and the detective in charge of the investigation (Jake Gyllenhaal) quickly rules him out as a suspect.

What are the most important cognitive capacities that should underpin your students» learning across their classes and through their school experience?

Do schools that succeed in raising test scores do so by improving their students» underlying cognitive capacities?

The eight chapters include Changing Your Student's Brains, Begin with Attitude Building and Build Cognitive Capacity.

You can include capacities like content mastery, critical thinking and problem solving, creativity and innovation, civic literacy, and other cognitive capacities necessary for success in the 21st century.

So the idea of a number of relatively independent cognitive capacities is not in itself daunting.

Academic outcomes, of course, but IDEA addresses more than the cognitive capacities of students.

«Texts can be redesigned to offer engaging content, as well as critical information without overloading the cognitive capacities of those young children who acquire literacy in school,» Hiebert said.

One recent US study reported that the presence of smartphones damages cognitive capacity.

Teachers from districts throughout the Eastern Upstate TC Network practice specialized strategies designed to build students» cognitive capacity in this distance - learning enabled collaborative action research project.

Rather the researchers believe that study data suggest that there are a number of relationships characterized by different cognitive capacities and ways of thinking in the arts that have impact on learning in the arts and other subjects.